System and method for application fault tolerance and recovery using topologically remotely located computing devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7613749
APP PUB NO 20070244937A1
SERIAL NO

11403050

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A system and method for application fault tolerance and recover using topologically remotely located computing devices are provided. A primary computing device runs one instance of an application (i.e. the primary application instance) at a production site and an active standby computing device runs a second instance of the application (i.e. the shadow application instance) at a recovery site which may be topologically remotely located from the production site. The two instances of the application are brought into a consistent state by running an initial application “checkpoint” on the primary computing device followed by an application “restart” on the active standby computing device. Events occurring in the primary application instance may be automatically and continuously recorded in a log and transferred to the recovery site using a peer-to-peer remote copy operation so as to maintain the states of the application instances consistent.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Flynn,, Jr John Thomas Morgan Hill , US 4 68
Howie, Mihaela Burlingame , US 2 158

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